The Mixed-Use (MU) zones provide for mixed-use developments that permit a broad range of commercial, institutional, and multi-family residential development at varying densities.The MU zones are designed to provide facilities for housing, shopping, and business needs, including residential, office, service, and employment centers.In addition to the purpose statements of individual chapters, the purposes of the MU zones are to:

Provide for the orderly development and use of land and structures in the MU zones, characterized by a mixture of land uses;

Provide for a varied mix of residential, employment, retail, service, and other related uses at appropriate densities and scale throughout the city;

Reflect a variety of building types, including, but not limited to, shop-front buildings which may include a vertical mixture of residential and non-residential uses, buildings made up entirely of residential uses, and buildings made up entirely of non-residential uses;